holmes crushed by falling trees and rooftops torn up. after the violent storms, the severe weather knocked out 300,000, and customers after seeing 55,000 still in the dark tonight. almost 3003 emergencies in the city of chicago alone hundreds of thousands of people without power while the recovery is on people are left to pick up the pieces after a storm that was not only fast, violent and widespread. as the sun sets it's hard to remember just how all of this damage was done tonight roofs are collapsed trees are toppled and power lines are down more than 12 hours after this aborted storm swept through the area. high winds and lightning into the swiftness with which it came through it was a very severe storm in terms of the intensity. very fast moving and pretty much spread out causing a lot of damage. in northwest indiana a car parts store lost its roof traffic lights went dark at u.s. 30 and broadway. across the border of aurora rockford and the city of chicago ranked the worst over 400 crews worked tirelessly working to restore power t